sunda islands in English

noun
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a chain of islands in the southwestern part of the Malay Archipelago. They are divided into two groups: the Greater Sunda Islands , which include Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Sulawesi, and the Lesser Sunda Islands , which lie to the east of Java and include Bali, Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba, and Timor.

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1. Borneo is situated southeast of the Malay Peninsula in the Greater Sunda Islands group of the Malay Archipelago

2. During the Pleistocene, the Greater Sunda Islands were connected to the Asian mainland while New Guinea was connected to Australia.

3. The island of Timor Leste is part of the Indonesian archipelago and the largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.

4. Bali sits at the very eastern tip of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a string of islands that include Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba, Timor, and a collection of other archipelagos